Travel day one
22. huhtikuuta 2025, Turkki ⋅ ☁️ 9 °C
Flight from Seattle to Amsterdam, Amsterdam to Istanbul. Stayed in same airport hotel as previous trip.
Travel day two
24. huhtikuuta 2025, Romania ⋅ 🌙 11 °C
Short flight from Istanbul to Bucharest. Settled into Airbnb, lunch, grocery shopping, then we conked out.
Walking tour
25. huhtikuuta 2025, Romania ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
Started our day with a great walking tour. Then lunch, and a siesta.
Springtime park and villages museum
26. huhtikuuta 2025, Romania ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C
We took a bus across town to the Herastrau Park, and took a long walk up the lake. It was a beautiful spring Saturday, and tons of locals were out walking, running, biking, etc. Reminded us a littleLue lisää
Museums
27. huhtikuuta 2025, Romania ⋅ ☁️ 16 °C
Went to the history museum, it was in a very cool old building, the museum itself was a bit underwhelming (we had been warned). Then into the Communist museum to learn more about life during that eraLue lisää
Chill day
28. huhtikuuta 2025, Romania ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C
Spent the morning travel planning, then headed to the popular restaurant of Caru cu Bere. Beautiful interior and good food (definitely a splurge for us).
After lunch we walked along the canal andLue lisää
More parks
29. huhtikuuta 2025, Romania ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C
Another morning of travel booking. Then we metro'd up to the bus station we'll be departing from in a few days, but weren't able to buy tickets.
Then we meandered through the botanical gardens,Lue lisää
Museums
30. huhtikuuta 2025, Romania ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C
Went to the national museum of art.
Bus to Sibiu
1. toukokuuta 2025, Romania ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C
5 hour bus ride to Sibiu, through the Carpathian mountains. Long but pretty
Lively Sibiu
1.–6. toukok. 2025, Romania ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C
Enjoying this charming town. We've taken a walking tour, seen churches and museums, eaten on the many squares and plazas.
Travel day
6. toukokuuta 2025, Romania ⋅ ☁️ 21 °C
Lazy morning, then a walk to the train station. Easy boarding to our train to brasov. We took the 4-hour slooow train (the timing was better) so we stopped in every Hamlet. It was fine except theLue lisää
Getting to know Brasov
7. toukokuuta 2025, Romania ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C
Started the day with a walking tour of the town. Very enjoyable. We then had lunch, then hit up the city history museum.
Bran castle
8. toukokuuta 2025, Romania ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C
Picked up a rental car mid-morning, then headed up to Bran castle. I had low expectations, and it was way better then that! Fully enjoyed it. Then we headed to Rasnov for lunch. What a sleepy town! WeLue lisää
Peles castle
9. toukokuuta 2025, Romania ⋅ ☁️ 11 °C
Drive up into the Carpathian mountains to see the wonderful peles castle.
Chill out day
10. toukokuuta 2025, Romania ⋅ ⛅ 13 °C
Lazy day, finished booking new Zealand travel
Train to Bucharest
11. toukokuuta 2025, Romania ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C
Decided to make our travel lives easier. Took a midday train to Bucharest, metro to our IHG (free room night)
Trains to Bulgaria
12. toukokuuta 2025, Bulgaria ⋅ ⛅ 17 °C
We left our Bucharest hotel at 8:30, and backtracked on the metro back to Gare de Nord, as we had to pick up our international train tix a bit earlier than our 10am train.
Train ride was uneventfulLue lisää
Enjoying Plovdiv
14.–21. toukok. 2025, Bulgaria ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C
Great town! Day one we did a walking tour. In the following days we also saw the ethnography museum, the bishops basilica with amazing mosaics, we hiked up to the "monument to the Soviet soldier",Lue lisää
Train day
21. toukokuuta 2025, Bulgaria ⋅ ☁️ 24 °C
~3 hour train ride to Sofia. Then taxi to our cute Airbnb. As is our routine, unpack and get settled, find a grocery store for provisions, relax for a bit on our back balcony. Then out to find dinner.
Walking tour
22. toukokuuta 2025, Bulgaria ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C
Great morning walking tour of the main town. Always a great way to get oriented.
Rila monastery
23. toukokuuta 2025, Bulgaria ⋅ ☁️ 19 °C
Day tour to the fantastic Rila monastery, as well as the bayana church.
Town meander
24. toukokuuta 2025, Bulgaria ⋅ 🌧 12 °C
Today is the national holiday celebrating the professors and their students that created the Cyrillic alphabet, it's a big claim to fame here in Bulgaria. We walked by some festival streets, andLue lisää
Rainy Sunday
25. toukokuuta 2025, Bulgaria ⋅ 🌧 10 °C
It's raining heavy and not predicted to get above 48*. So much for escaping Seattle's chilly spring.
We spent the morning chilling, reading, travel planning, then decided to go back to the nationalLue lisää
Tromp thru the woods
26. toukokuuta 2025, Bulgaria ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C
Rain dissipated this morning, so we went for a long ramble. Started in a park near our apartment, then continued about 5 miles through the woods (toward the zoo). We some people, but fewer and fewerLue lisää
Churches and museums
27. toukokuuta 2025, Bulgaria ⋅ ⛅ 19 °C
Last day in Sofia. We wandered to a cool looking blue and gold church, but no pictures allowed.
We then went to the regional History museum which had a nice bit of everything.
Then we grabbedLue lisää